It was discovered that wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, containedseveral vulnerabilities in the dissectors/file parsers for IxVeriWave,WCP, JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP and GDB, which could result in denial ofdervice or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixedin version (1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u13.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed inversion 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2+deb9u2.